Body size of German civilians

In collaboration with Sascha Wischniewski and his colleagues, Dominik Bonin and Alexander Grötsch, we have made stature, mass, and BMI data for German civilians publicly available. This is an updated sample, based on the first wave of the German Health and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1). The data were collected from adults aged 18-67 years from 2008-2011.

The data are collected by the Robert Koch Institute in Germany and, due to data use restrictions, can not be released to the general public. However, since many advanced design techniques require the rich data (rather than the summary statistics), this reduces their utility for design practice. Using a new method I developed for a similar project, we created a virtual population of unique individuals. This synthesized population is both statistically and functionally equivalent to the DEGS1 population.